Five reflections on the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

for piano (2009)

I. Daylight

II. The Coldest Lover

III. Nothing in the World

IV. Cradle Song

The grave of beauty is its cradle too.

And new is old, and old is ever new,

Little grows great, and great grows small again,

And I to-day—perchance to-morrow You!